Cabinet has decided that the descriptor `Negro’ is no longer to be used in the operational manuals of state agencies.
The decision announced yesterday by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira comes in the wake of a controversy over the continued use of the term by the Guyana Police Force.
The use of the term East Indian is also to be discontinued.
In her statement announcing the decision Teixeira took a swipe at the opposition which had recently complained about the use of the word `Negro’ to describe an accused.
